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Kodi crashing when projectm is installed

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Description

Hi,

I am experiencing crashes when projectm is installed on my system. Crashes occur when starting music or live tv. Disabling the addon in kodi does not make the issue go away, I have to use apt to remove kodi-visualisation-projectm. I do not need to restart kodi to for the crashes to stop, removing the package is enough.

Crash logs of the issue:
AMD gpu
https://pastebin.com/g7BH7qL2
https://pastebin.com/5jUEp7s9
https://controlc.com/b013d3c7
https://controlc.com/acc747c4

Intel GPU
https://paste.kodi.tv/nusotisaho.kodi
https://paste.kodi.tv/idovexupus.kodi

System is ubuntu 20.04 with kodi 19 installed. This issue happens on two systems, both intel cpu's, with one using the igpu and the other using a amd gpu. Both systems have almost identical software installed, with tweaks for each brand of gpu.

I have been able to consistently reproduce the issue/fix on both systems.

Forum thread about the issue below
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=365755

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked crash logs and reproducing the failure on Ubuntu 20.04 with Kodi 19, comparing music or live TV startup with the projectM package installed and removed. Done means the crash is identified and no longer occurs while the package remains installed.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
computer-graphics
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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